Trucks

The winter of 2014 was a doozy. Seemingly endless and void of color, it left all of us eager for a sign, any sign, that spring is indeed going to ... well, spring. The first daffodil buds usually do the trick, but this year there is another, equally fragrant and colorful but infinitely more flavorful indicator that the polar vortex is, indeed, a thing of the past: Food trucks. These vessels for delicious and cheap meals on wheels are like flowers, popping up on street corners all over New Haven County, and they are a scrumptious sign of the sunny, warm days ahead.

It wasn’t always that way, however. Food trucks in olden days were known as roach coaches, but this new generation of...

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The winter of 2014 was a doozy. Seemingly endless and void of color, it left all of us eager for a sign, any sign, that spring is indeed going to ... well, spring. The first daffodil buds usually do the trick, but this year there is another, equally...

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It is a crown Ford has no intention of losing.The F-150 full-size truck has been the bestselling vehicle in the U.S. for more than three decades. In 2012, the automaker sold more than 645,000 copies, outpacing General Motors’ trucks by 70,000.Yet rival...

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